Students on our professional course learn something new every day. That was true of last week, as in any week, with our students now having departed for the Christmas break. With the professional course only lasting 30 weeks, we have to cram in as much as we can into a relatively short period. Last week, …
Furniture making usually involves things like dovetails and band-saws, although it can sometimes mean handling the most delicate of paintbrushes. It usually happens when a broken piece of furniture needs a new section to be attached, or when its surface patina has been badly scuffed or chipped away. That’s when the delicate art of colour …
A student who graduated earlier this year is shortly to fashion new legs for a 2,000-year-old terracotta horse. Dr Phillip Prager from Luxembourg, a former assistant professor of aesthetics at the IT University in Copenhagen and a published expert on the nature of creative thinking, is a collector of the eclectic and unusual. The legless …
Graduates on our professional course leave the Chippendale school with all sorts of different ambitions for their futures. Some want to specialise in kitchen design and building, others want to concentrate on fine furniture, and others will see how their businesses develop. But a key focus for some students is furniture restoration, both because they …
We’re always delighted to feature the work of former students, particularly one as talented as Colin Bate who now runs Highwood Furniture. So talented is Colin that he was voted Students’ Choice Student of the Year 2017, and has gone on to set up his business in Alyth, Perth & Kinross. He’s now working out …
It’s called brick building but it’s really an exercise in learning how to fashion many pieces of wood into one geometrically perfect circle. That was our two-day learning challenge this week, giving our students just 48 hours to fashion 32 carefully-cut pieces of pine into four layers to create a hollow wooden structure. Once the …
